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Advanced Operations for Shooting

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Note

The item at the upper left of the screen is displayed
according to the following order of priority.
Title > user-defined clip name > standard format clip
name
Therefore, the display of this item changes as follows,
depending on whether or not there is a title.
• When a title has been set as a clip name on this unit, the

title is displayed for clips recorded on this unit.

• The user-defined name or standard format name is

displayed for clips without a title.

To check clip information (name, title,
etc.)

For details, see “Checking clip properties”
(page 121).

Planning metadata is a file that contains metadata
about the clips to be shot and recorded.
To use planning metadata, you need to load a
planning metadata file into the unit’s memory
before starting to shoot.
There are three ways to load files.
• Automatically load a file that has been written

to the following directory on a Professional
Disc via an FTP connection.
If you do not want to load a file automatically,
add a “load” property to the PlanningMetadata
tag and set the value of the property to “false”,
as shown in the shaded part of the following
example.

Example:

<PlanningMetadata …

version="1.00">

• Use a GUI screen to load a file that has been

written to the following directories on a
Professional Disc or a USB flash drive

(see

page 134)

• Use a web browser to load a planning metadata

file

(see page 138)

File creation rules

a) The General/Sony/Planning directory is generated

automatically when you format a disc.

Note

Do not save more than 100 planning metadata files in the
above save locations. The unit may fail to load the files
correctly if more than 100 are saved.

For greater convenience in planning metadata
operations, you can use the optional CBK-WA01
Wi-Fi Adaptor and the supplied Sony Planning
Metadata Add-in application software. For details,
refer to the operation manual of the CBK-WA01
Wi-Fi Adaptor.

To set clip names by using planning
metadata

The following two types of clip name strings can
be written in a planning metadata file.
• The ASCII format name that appears in the

viewfinder

• The UTF-8 format name that is actually

registered as the clip name

1) It is also possible to display the UTF-8 format name,

or no name

(see page 135)

2) When no UTF-8 format name string is specified, the

ASCII format name string is registered as the actual
clip name.

Clip name string format

In a text editor, modify the two fields in the
<Title> tag that contain the clip name strings (the
shaded fields in the example in the next section
“Clip name string example”).
Enter a name in the first field in ASCII format (up
to 50 characters), and enter another name in the
second field in UTF-8 format (up to 50 bytes).

Clip name string example

<?xml

version= "1.0"

encoding="UTF-8"?>

<PlanningMetadata

xmlns="http://

xmlns.sony.net/pro/metadata/
planningmetadata"

assignId="

P0001"

creationDate="

2008-01-20T17:00:00+09:00"

lastUpdate="